Apparently I was wrong, it's decided it's done and working again now.
The pict-rs upgrade is ongoing.
From what I can tell it'll be about another 5 hours. I'm going to have to go to bed and check on it in the morning.
Unfortunately the stock-standard lemmy-ui doesn't like it that pict-rs is migrating to a new version of database and not serving images, so it's stubbornly just not working at all.
Our best haj, Shonky (they/them) is available now, over at their own Github repository for use when referring to Blåhaj Lemmy.
I'm guessing we'll need them to make an appearance for the Canvas template.
So this was at the very start of the s02e10 episode - "Pegasus".
I also agree.
While I couldn't care less (it's their body and bodily autonomy is super important to me), I'd be a little hurt if they didn't tell me about it.
In that case I'd be more interested in talking to my partner to try and understand why they felt that they couldn't talk to me about it and needed to keep it a secret.
Oh goodness, why is this so funny? lol.
So, one thing I'd mention is the systems and admin work involved in running an instance.
This is on top of the community moderation, and involves networking with other instance admins, maintaining good relations, deciding who to defeferate from, dealing with unhappy users, etc.
Then there's the setup and maintenance of the servers, security, hacks, DDoSing, backups, redundancy, monitoring, downtime, diagnosis, fixing performance issues, patching, coding, upgrades etc.
I wouldn't be here doing this without @ada. We make a formidable team, and without any self effacement, we are both at the top of our respective roles with decades of experience.
Big communities also magnify the amount of work involved. We're almost at the point where we are starting to consider getting additional people involved.
Moreover we're both here for the long haul, with the willingness and ability to personally cover the shortfall in hosting costs.
I'm not trying to convince you to stay here. But in addition to free hardware, you're going to need a small staff to do these things for you, so my advice is to work out if you have reliable AND trustworthy people (because these people will have access to confidential user data) who are committed to do this work long term with you. Where will you be in 3 years, 5, 10?
We have already begun moving, and this announcement was to warn our users about future downtime as we migrate more critical services like databases etc.
To be clear, $3k is an accurate, but unacceptable amount.
As in that's what it's actually costing us, but it's not what it should be costing. I'd imagine more like $250 is what we should be paying if I wasn't using AWS in the silly way I am.
I'm admitting up front that I've been more focused on developing rather than optimising operating costs because I could afford to be a little frivolous with the cost in exchange for not having to worry about doing server stuff.
Even when the Reddit thing happened I was wilfully ignoring it, trying to solve the scaling issues instead of focusing on the increased costs.
And so I didn't notice when Lemmy was pushing a terabyte of data out of the ELB a day. And that's what got me.
About half that $3k is just data transfer costs.
Anyhow the notice was just to let our users know what is going on and that there'll be some maintenance windows in their future so it doesn't surprise anyone.
We have a plan and it will all work out.
Don't panic or have any kneejerk reactions, it's just an FYI.
Just want to say, I don't blame anyone else but myself.
I certainly don't blame anyone at 196.
I hope I'm really clear about that. It's one of the reasons I specifically didn't name 196 in my announcement.
We've got a solution planned, we've already started to implement it and have the image transfer issue solved already.
We can afford to cover this ridiculous AWS bill, I just need to do some maintenance work so this doesn't continue because I can't continue to line Jeff Bezos' pockets like this indefinitely.
You are actually a little bit correct.
Most uses of the misnomer "transphobia" are actually incorrect, because the people involved aren't actually suffering from an irrational medical or psychological fear of transgender people.
What they actually are doing is more accurately called "transmisia", because they are transmisic. This means they are heavily prejudiced against transgender women and believe that they shouldn't be involved in the competitions.
Their reason for this are not because the transgender women don't meet the beauty standards, or aren't passing the judging categories, but because they just don't want them there purely due to their trans-mysogynistic preconceptions.
Hi everyone.
Lemmy had an XSS vulnerability and we were one of the instances attacked through this vulnerability. We had our homepage replaced by a youtube video.
The lemmy devs were quick to create a PR for this issue and we have patched our instance to fix it,
Also while I do not believe any login tokens were compromised, we have taken the additional measure of rotating our secret key, so everyone will have to login to the site again as your existing credentials will no longer be valid.
If login fails to work properly, you may have to clear your cookies for the site... it seems to get confused about whether you're logged in or not.
Sorry that this happened, if you have any questions please contact @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone or myself.
Poor li'l blighter got attacked by a bin chick'n and was limping away last we saw em... after goin' the bin juice drinkin' irrit of course.